24111Re: Two large consecutive smooth numbers

> Jim White & I have been trying to construct these things
> because they are grist for my new factoring algorithm SMODA.

I have not been following this in detail, but I gained the impression
that Warren's original advert was far too optimistic and that now
his heuristic for oracular factorization has escalated from
exp(log(N)^(1/3+o(1))) to the far less encouraging
exp(log(N)^(2/3+o(1))) as the time to construct a database.